blogSpirit vs. b2evolution vs. Wordpress vs. Geeklog

General Features blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Version
5.0
2.4
2.0.7
1.8.2
Release Date
2007
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
blogSpirit
Francois Planque / evoTeam
WordPress Development Team
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
From $0 to Enterprise
GPL
GPL
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
0 - Free
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Hosting Features blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Storage Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
php
Operating System
Linux
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
Other
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
no
Anti-Spam blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
several specialized antispam plugins
various other plugins
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
OpenID plugin
None
Support blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
1
5+
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Undo
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Comment Features blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Client + Server
Extended Features blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
blogSpirit
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit b2evolution Wordpress Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
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